Numbersix
Secret Journey

THE REVIEW

Music accessible to everyone but not for everyone.
This seems to be the subliminal message that emerges from the dark atmospheres (self)produced by NUMBERSIX. From their website (www.nosix.net) you can indeed grab the entire album of the dark Roman quartet led by Emanuele Napolitano for free, but don't expect easy listening music.
After stumbling upon them online, I patiently downloaded all ten tracks and I must say it was worth it.

Secret Journey (first album) is truly a secret journey through various musical genres, starting from electronica and clashing with industrial, brushing electropop and vaguely dark settings, some passages even reminiscent of Biosphere.
Sounds of printers, Sardinian choirs, Indian chants, distant voices, reverse guitars with strange allusions to The Doors (?). These are some of the cards played by Numbersix.
The reiterated melodies of We Live As We Dream, the first track of the album, give way to the rounded sounds of Argonauta. The notable Garbatella (dedicated to the historic district of Rome?) opens the second part characterized by lysergic loops.
And sounds that are a bit more ethnic.

Secret journey certainly doesn't have the depth of Fripp or Eno's albums, but it doesn't seem to want it either with its singing on the brink of being off-key, multiple voices, and its bizarre sampling. Their secret journey almost seems like a divertissement, a journey where you don't pay for a ticket.